The Congress coincided with the exhibition "100,000 Newspapers" by Gustav Metzger. The Congress was aimed at artists and the art world.

The Congress began on Friday 14th March at 2pm

The Directors of leading London institutions showing modern art were invited to talk about their projects and plans at the opening event. A discussion formed part of this session.
Invitations were sent to the following institutions:

On Saturday 15th of March the Congress began at 10.30am and ended at 5.30pm. The morning session was concerned with architecture and planning. On Sunday afternoon the main artist’ discussion took place and concluded the Congress.

Speakers were invited to speak from a fork-lift truck situated in the Gallery – obviously, normal chairs are available should these be preferred. The fork-lift truck stands as a symbol for the real world. It is also a tough multi-purpose instrument. We feel that the British art world could benefit from facing up to its potential.

Gavin Wade (curator of 'Strike') “A mixture of small strategies for shaping the world”
 
Marysia Lewandowski, Neil Cummings (Chance Projects)

“The museum is evolving as a 'brand', competing to control the flow of value through things, as its objects merge with a wider culture of exhibition; our most unique artefacts become seamlessly integrated into the retail present.”
 

Simon Morris (artist Simon Morris and the psychoanalyst , Dr. Howard Britton will complete the following action:

"a text that destroys itself in the process of its own reading."
Beginning with two autonomous texts, one black on white, one red on white, the authors will begin to read their work. As each text develops, it will progressively attack the other, like a virus or process of contagion until the words from each text are covering each other and meaning is completely destroyed/disappears.
”It is my intention to publish the text as a small booklet to be distributed at the conference and to make a small website that can be screened during our talk. I'm also publishing Tim Brennan's manifesto on curationism for distribution at the talk.” SM

Tim Brennan (curator/writer)

In the future, curationism will be a dominant cultural formation in which its practitioners, Nu-curators, exist at the nexus of performance and curating. Curationism will involve a combination of pre-capitalist approaches to collecting with more recent developments in fine art. This, as yet, ‘undefined curating ’ is a radical rethinking of curatorial tendancies in the expanding global economy.

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Forthcoming speakers at T1+2artspace events include:

Sultan Barrakat  BSc (Jordan); MA (York); Disaster Management Certificate (Oxford); DPhil (York) MA in Post war Recovery Studies, Director
Director of Post-war Recovery and Development Unit .Will talk about Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of War-torn Societies; Reintegration of Excombatants; Conflict Prevention; Impact Assessment of Relief and Development Programmes, Peace-building; Planning and Traini

Hans Ulrich Obrist has curated exhibitions at Musèe d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; the Kunsthalle, Wien; Deichtor-Hallen, Hamburg; and Serpentine Gallery in London, among other institutions. He currently divides his time between France, Switzerland and Austria. After an initial training in economics and politics, he switched to contemporary art and has organised a variety of exhibitions in such unlikely venues as his own house, a monastery library, an airplane and a hotel.  To do a public discussion / interview with Gustav Metzger.